Student Information
Graduate Student
Design, Environment and the Arts (Design)
Herberger Institute
Long Bio
As a Ph.D. student and graduate research assistant who is passionate to do urban resilience and sustainable projects, her research focuses on ways to make cities more resilient regarding the social and environmental indicators against natural disasters (extreme heats and earthquake) while also making the cities more sustainable. She focuses on urban resilience concept, planning strategy and design guidelines for urban resilience in a changing climate with an emphasis on heat, and landscape design in a variety of cities. Negar uses the qualitative and quantitative methods in her research to spatial analysis and works with ArcGIS and the relevant heat temperature programs. She has a Master's degree in Urban Design and Bachelor's degree in Urban Engineering.
Education
Ph.D. Student in Landscape Architecture and Environment at Arizona State University
Research Interests
Urban resilience; Vulnerable Community; Urban housing; Sustainability; Natural disaster; Heat mitigation and analysis; Landscape design; GIS
Research Group
As a graduate research assistant, working on some KER and YouthMappers projects from 2022.
Publications
Rahmatollahi.N, Cheng. C, Praharaj. S (2023). Climate justice in community design: investigating alternative metrics of economic vulnerability to extreme heat in Metro Phoenix, Arizona; CELA Conference, San Antonio, Texas;
Research Activity
Knowledge Exchange for Resilience (KER) and YouthMappers from 2022.